The Chad Stevens rink from Nova Scotia beat New Brunswick’s Rick Perron team 7-4 in this afternoon’s final at the Atlantic Curling Tour championship at Moncton’s Curling Beausejour. The last of four PEI rinks in the event, skipped by Rod MacDonald,  and including Andrew Robinson, Mark O’Rourke, and Sean Clarey, lost in the quarter-finals this morning to  Perron of in an extra end by a 5-4 score. MacDonald stole the final end, but Perron had hammer in the extra and took the win with a single point.

Perron went on to beat another New Brunwick rink, skipped by Terry Odishaw, by a 6-3 score in the semis, while Stevens got by another Nova Scotia team, the Jamie  Murphy rink, 7-6 in an extra end, in the other semi.

PEI’s Kevin Champion rink lost to Nova Scotia’s Shawn Adams 6-1 in a Sunday night tiebreaker, after winning their first two games, against Adams and against clubmate and tour moneyleader Robert Campbell, and losing 5-4 to Perron. PEI’s Eddie MacKenzie and  Campbell rinks did not pick up wins in the event, with Campbell losing 7-6 to Perron, 6-5 to Champion, and 9-5 to Adams, while MacKenzie lost 5-4 to MacDonald, and 8-3 to Stevens. MacDonald recorded wins against MacKenzie (5-4), Ken Myers of Halifax (6-3), and lost 5-3 to Stevens before advancing to the quarter-final round.

$10,o00 is the total purse in this cashspiel, which wraps up the Atlantic Curling Tour for the season, as teams now shift their focus to their provincial championships.